How to change a system name in UUCP

[Preet Dhillon]

Dear Colleagues,

I have a system defined in UUCP as EGO. I need to change this name to MAN. Can anyone advise on how to do this?

Many thanks and best regards,
Preet

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

/usr/lib/uucp/Permissions


Steve Steel

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If I understand your question correctly, you want the NODENAME to differ from the HOSTNAME. While I would not advise this, if for some reason you have to have a hostname that differs from the nodename, you can add a line to '/etc/rc.config.d/netconf' like:

NODENAME="mynode"

If you look at '/sbin/init.d/hostname', you will see that 'uname -s...' is issued based on HOSTNAME if NODENAME is empty (undefined).

Regards!

...JRF...

[T G Manikandan]

Yes you can do that by adding a line as
NODENAME="MAN"

Also place an alias in your /etc/hosts file
as
ip-add hostname MAN
because without this your CDE won't work.

The maximum length of your nodename is 8 characters


THanks

[Devbinder Singh Marway]

in /etc/uucp/Permissions file add the entry

MYNAME=MAN

[Wodisch_1]

Hi Preet,

the "NODENAME=" is the first part, but then you'll have to adjust this change in "/etc/uucp/Systems" and "/etc/uucp/Permissions" on all the UUCP connected systems, too...

Jut my $0.02,
Wodisch